HBO’s The Mortician, a documentary series premiering June 1, examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains. In the 1980s, David Sconce ran a ...

The Mortician chronicles a trusted family-owned funeral home that hid behind a façade of decency and propriety to take advantage of loved ones at their most vulnerable moments. In the early 1980s, ...

The Mortician, directed by Joshua Rofé (Jonah Hill is one of the show’s executive producers), is a 3-part docuseries about how David Sconce did ethically questionable things with people’s bodies as ...

This show is not for the faint of heart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Full disclosure, The Mortician was so gruesome in its ...

Hi Josh, congratulations on getting The Mortician off the ground. It's one of the more unique and unusual subjects for a True Crime documentary, including the fact that people are already dead and ...

Death is terrifying. It’s coming for us all, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Many of us, myself very much included, try to eschew thoughts of mortality from our periphery, opting to live in ...